Tuesday, November 25, 2014

I chose to go clean and simple as most of my cards tend to veer towards.

Using some Corrugated paper from a cool DCWV stack I found. It gave a country feel to a traditional wedding... after putting it together I kinda felt like I should have used Country Wedding

But I just never know how a card will turn out till it's finished. I go at coloring a image with absolutely no thought in mind to the finished product.. So everything tends to take on a mind of it's own .

I've embellished with fun flowers, Hemp string that I received as a freebie from Unity stamps and some pearls... every wedding has pearls right?

Around the border of the image is This cool stuff called called Fran'tage from Stampendous.

You sprinkle it on and heat from underneath the image till melted. This color is called Shabby White.

Also around the outer edge rather than sewing which I regret not doing now, I added a fine bead of Stickles in Crystal.

Thursday, November 20, 2014

I've reworked some of my images and am making up cards for them as I go.

No rush just something fun to play with :)

Here are the cards I've done so far...

I was hunting for some birds to do when I started Kit and Clowders animal class and realized I had a few of my own so why not color them up!

Heck I've made so many cards recently that I might have to start selling a few of them as well!

It will be an interesting undertaking. I am awaiting the arrival of a new Wacom Intuos pad so I can start adding some new images as well. Any Ideas are welcome and if they are used you will receive the image for free!!

It's so cute shaped like a ticket. I opted to make it look like a sign. Which was easy just cut a stick and background and color :) And a bit more stickles at the base to make it lool like its sticking out of the snow.

And a piece of hemp to add some dimension to the rope of the sled.

Most of the image has been popped up using dimensional tape.

Is It Christmas yet? Because I can't wait to send these cards out! Heck I'm not sure I have ever gotten this many Christmas cards done this early in the season...

Please be sure to check out the other DT's cards! The are all such amazing artist!!

And as always check out the Challenge Blog it looks like some amazing prizes are available!

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

This is my first time participating with Inky Impressions as a Design team Member for challenge team A! Whoop Whoop!! Hopefully I get this done right and painlessly because I have asked so many questions I'm sure they are wishing they had never met me!! Lol

Any how, this weeks challenge was Animals. Can I just say there are some darn cute ones to pick from at the Inky Impressions Store!?! I chose Snow Kitten for mine. She is soooooo stinking cute!!!

It's so funny that as I went to go back and get the link for her for this post, I've used almost the same color's as they do in the shop! I'm not sure if that is sad on my part or what but... oh well I guess! Great minds?

For the background, I cut out a center snow border and dug out a cloud cut from the Silhouette.

(TIP: I like to keep extra's in a bag so I don't have to cut new ones every time I need one)

It was as simple as using some cheep dollar store sponges cut to small pieces and sponging out the background using inks from Stampin' up. Colors included: Soft Sky and Pacific Point for the sky and Lavender Lace and Bordering Blue for the snow area.

I then cut my background to size, lightly taped it to a piece of printer paper and ran it through the printer and printed the image out onto my back ground.....

of course I couldn't get it right the first time and ended up having to make my background smaller due to over print. :P

I then printed a second image out at the same size on copic paper and fussy cut her out.

Added some pop up tape and popped her on to the back ground. Easy Peesy! Then to colored her up!

I added some Tim Holtz embossing paste for some fluff, then made it pretty with Stickles. Cause everything is better with glitter right??

The white snow dot's are filled in with Molotow pen then stickled as well....

Friday, November 7, 2014

To start this page off right how about a tour of the craft room? I've been collecting and building my supplies for over 11 years! It started with a small desk in a corner to what you see now. I don't only make cards, I dabble in just about everything I can get my hands on. I'm always thrilled to learn something new. From crochet of blankets to hats, scrapbooking, furniture refinishing, a bit of photography, sewing from quilts to clothes, even down to doll clothes... Even built a few dollhouses! A Jill of all trades lol!

To start this was a dining room, beautiful arched door, wrap around window's, wood floors and it even at one time had a wall length bench. I being the crazy person that I am took it over and made it my own :)

Would you look at that beautiful chair! My Grandma passed away recently and I was able to take her beautiful chair and her afghan that she made. It really makes me happy to have it in here.

Here is a view out the back. I used to have a chicken coup that we built that was always fun to watch. But it was torn down just recently with the rehoming of our last two chickens. Now the view is a tree house and all the deer that come to visit. You might be able to make out some remaining pumpkin in the yard that we tossed out for them to eat.

Also as you can see lots of Stampin Up on the shelves there :)

Here is some more of my mess. A beautiful refinished dresser done by one of my past neighbors daughter, then a fun spinning green table that I tackled. I Love how it turned out! and of course more stamps... the scrap rack is full to the hilt, and more shelves of Stampin up and dies for the sizzix :) And no room would be complete with out baskets of yarn am I right?

Here is my creative space where most everything is put together.

No space is complete with out Copics :)

Yep, more stamps...

Just a little cluttered but organized to the hilt. To the back is a pantry so of course this is a high traffic area. Check out on the door, I took scrap rack hooks and put them on a over the door pantry rack for more hanging stamp storage...

yep more stamps on the next wall and my trusty Silhouette!

Here is the computer area... or facebook checker lol! Up top are dolls that I made, including some BJD dolls that I have attempted face ups on... that might better be left to the professionals :) If you look carefully you can see a framed card made by Alyce from Kit and Clowder! Her classes are amazing by the way!!
Also a few camera lenses. I kinda love them :)

And here is the stranger side of things... first of all meet Duke our Chocolate lab who loves to leave his own art work on the windows while the deer are grazing away...

Also my craft room come's complete with a big red Tool Box! I got sick of getting in trouble for barrowing DH's dirty old tools. So I got my own. And they are ALL shiny and pretty! Of course guess who barrows them from me??? UH hu. yep. Look closely there is a drill charger on top of the white drawers... but no drill. I haven't seen it in like a month...

Also yep that s a 22 hanging over my door. It's crafty I swear! The wood work is amazing and it matches my crochet hooks!

Well I hope you enjoyed my little tour. I love having a space of my own.. Full of color and creativity. Though it may be changing in the future. My twins have gone off to college and one of their rooms with a door that closes is looking pretty tempting... The question is, what is a respectable amount of time before you take over their space lol!